Stringent quality standards and yet they only warranty it for 6 months...

Use code WDSTORECPN to get it for £339 :smiley:. Now to justify it to the better half...

In the email WD Product Registration

Registration Date January 28, 2017
Warranty Date August 26, 2018

That was unexpected thought 6 months was mentioned

They are red drives. just different label because they been recertified. so people can't sell them on as new.

I just received mine today. the drives don't have a red label, they have black and white recertified labels on them that state '3TB Recertified SATA / 64MB CACHE - WD30EFRX - NASware 3.0'. What drives are these?

Pottery tutorials...:stuck_out_tongue:

I used to smack talk these WD deals because I had a string of failed drives and data loss, however it seems they are working hard to improve.
FYI if you want to know more https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

I ordered this when I received the email at around 7.30am, just didn't get the time to post the deal up on here. How simple is it to have additional 3tb red drives and swap them over when you need more storage space?

​reliable & cheep das are like hen's teeth, tough to find.

What do they mean by recertified?

8TB still available

I'm a videographer and always running out of space. I ordered one.

Would've liked one of these. Are all the drives OEM inside?

Nice wish I seen it sooner need more TB

AND NO STOCK NOW!!

All gone by the looks of it :disappointed:

Choose RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or select from spanning and JBOD modes
So RAID 0 striped gives you all 12 TB (One big disk across all 4 or JBOD)
RAID 1 gives you 6TB (same data duplicated across 2 volumes)
RAID 5 gives you 9TB (you loose 1 disk to parity)
RAID 10 Gives you 6TB but a bit faster (mirroring and striping)

This seems good value for a NAS drive of that capacity.

What drives does it come with? 4x4TB in RAID5 or something?

Correct.

If you don't want to use your PC and want a cheap set up, get a small form factor device with a decent cpu and attach a DAS to it.

Something like a mac mini with a DAS would have low power draw and be powerful enough to transcode (its the cpu that does all the work for plex).

Thanks for the info, presumed as much. I almost exclusively watch at home on an LG app which seems to leave the transcoding to my PC, presumably the client doesn't have enough grunt.

I assume this won't transcode Plex?

Hot!

That's a lot of copies of the bible, or wait, no it is po...

Stringent quality standards and yet they only warranty it for 6 months...

Try now. might be a single use code. I had the item in my basket, but have removed it now.

Invalid promo code

Use code 3wotma2bd for more money off :stuck_out_tongue: £70 worth !!!

Nice looking piece of kit this.

Use code WDSTORECPN to get it for £339 :smiley:. Now to justify it to the better half...